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Other Group
The Budapest Open Access Initiative is an initiative started and supported by the Open Society Foundations. In February 2002, it released a declaration of its support for open-access publishing, which included policy recommendations. It has since convened meetings on that declaration’s anniversary, made additional recommendations, and maintains an online
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Labor Union
The Wyoming Education Association (WEA) is a left-of-center association of public schoolteachers in Wyoming. The group is effectively the state’s teachers’ union, although it does not collectively bargain on behalf of teachers in the state. The union does, however, have affiliated local unions that negotiate with school districts. The union
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Non-profit
La Esperanza, Inc. is an organization serving Latinos and immigrants that operates in the Delaware area. La Esperanza provides legal counsel for immigration cases, citizenship classes, and helps immigrant families enroll their children in schools.
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Non-profit
Ignite Philanthropy is a project of New Venture Fund that fundraises for advocacy addressing violence against children. 32 It uses the identity politics concept of intersectionality to advocate for far-left ideas on gender,
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For-profit
Crowds on Demand is a marketing firm that provides hired crowds for events, including political rallies and protests. Crowds on Demand considers itself “the ultimate guerilla lobbying and government relations firm.” 39
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Non-profit
Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) is a gender justice and equality organization based in South Africa which claims to stand for the rights of women, men, and non-gender conforming individuals and is committed to feminist principles.
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Non-profit
The Alliance for Prosperity and a Secure Retirement (APSR) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards in pension fund investments. It is led by Tim Hill, a former labor union official. It explicitly criticizes boycotts of ESG investments led by Republican governors and
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Non-profit
Source LGBT Center Inc. (SLCI) is a nonprofit in Visalia, California which offers an onsite campus for LGBT youth. 69 It hosts the “Source” programs that includes support groups for LGBT individuals with HIV,
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Non-profit
Latino Policy Institute (LPI) advocates on state legislation and conducts research and education to advance left-of-center and Latino-focused interests within the state of Rhode Island. 80 The organization claims credit for expanding health coverage
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Non-profit
Longwood Foundation (LF) is a grantmaking organization operating in Delaware and Chester County Pennsylvania. LF has provided more than $2 billion in grants since its founding in 1937 to organizations within its area of operation. 23
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Non-profit
The Association of American Educators Foundation (AAE Foundation) is an organization that supports the activities of the Association of American Educators, a national non-union teacher association. The AAE Foundation intends to provide public educators and the general public with education, opportunities, and funding to improve American education through policy
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Other Group
Down in the County is a local media organization founded by Andrea Bruce in Pamlico County, North Carolina in 2021. Bruce, a veteran photojournalist, sought to fill a perceived gap in local media in her home region.
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Other Group
The Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) is a Harvard Business School-based organization that produces research publications focused on nonprofit management, MBA courses, and open-enrollment executive education programs that teach various business and management principles.
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Person
C. Frederick Taylor (Fred Taylor) is a reclusive California billionaire and one of three founders of the TGS Management hedge fund. In July 2023 the Orange County Business Journal described TGS as “an extremely secretive quant hedge fund” and that there had been “next to no mention of the
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Non-profit
The Indian American Impact Project is a left-of-center nonprofit that acts as the educational arm of Indian American Impact, a lobbying group that promotes the election of left-of-center Indian American and South Asian politicians in the United States. The Impact Project raises over $1 million annually and
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Other Group
The Digital Defense Fund (DDF) is a pro-abortion technology and advocacy organization that supports abortion providers and individuals seeking abortions. It provides security evaluations, training, and implementation support for abortion-provider organizations and publishes recommendations and support to individuals on how to avoid surveillance or leaving data trails when seeking an
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Non-profit
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation is a nonprofit based in New York and San Francisco founded by publishing and journalism giant William Randolph Hearst that provides grants supporting youth political engagement and journalism, culture, education, health, and social services.
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Other Group
The Natural Assets Project (also known as Natural Assets and Environmental Equity) was an environmentalist and social policy advocacy program of the think tank Prosperity Now (formerly known as the Corporation for Enterprise Development) and the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Its focus was
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Non-profit
Hearst Foundation Inc. is a New York- and San Francisco-based nonprofit founded by publishing and journalism giant William Randolph Hearst that provides grants supporting youth political engagement and journalism, culture, education, health, and social services.
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Other Group
Democracy House is a fiscally sponsored project of the Foundation for Civic Leadership that organizes programs to engage college students in political advocacy and recruit them to vote. 204 Democracy House’s programs have featured left-of-center
